“‘The Prince With That Hearth-broom’: Faulkner’s ‘Knight’s Gambit’ and the Movement of Southerners Across the Global Grid,” 54th Annual Conference of the British Association for American Studies, University of Nottingham, England, April 2009

“‘As if a Sea had Divided It’: Haiti, Migration, and the Horrors of Space in Page’s ‘No Haid Pawn,’” Society for the Study of Southern Literature, College of William and Mary, April 2008

“The Burden of the Southern Collective: Cultural Shorthand and New Southernist Perspectives,” NEXUS 2008 Interdisciplinary Conference: Collected and Collective Identities, University of Tennessee, March 2008

“‘The Influence of that Root’: Magic, Secrecy, and the Escape of Frederick Douglass (According to Georgia Douglas Johnson),” Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Conference, Fresno, California, March 2007

“Rewriting Reconciliation Romance: May Miller’s Christophe’s Daughters,” Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Conference, Boca Raton, Florida, April 2006